Fletcherianadj.
/flɛˈtʃɪərɪən/ Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Fletcher or his works.
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Terentian1600
Sophocleana1644
Shakespeareana1754
Plautine1768
Aeschylean1783
Marlowish1798
Websterian1809
Euripidean1821
Aristophanic1827
Fletcherian1850
Marlowesque1884
Senecan1885
Jonsonian1886
Marlovian1887
Ibsenian1891
Ibsenish1893
Pinerotic1895
Shavian1904
bardolatrous1905
Ibsenesque1906
Strindbergian1913
Lylian1923
Chekhovian1925
Sheridanesque1931
Brechtian1935
Vanbrughian1947
Stoppardian1978
1850 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 119/2 Many passages were strongly marked with the favourite Fletcherian cadence.
1907 Westm. Gaz. 3 Apr. 4/1 It is curious..that FitzGerald should have made his translations of Calderon so strongly Fletcherian in style.
1921 Spectator 19 Feb. 236/2 We all know how this new flower flourished and ramped in the Fletcherian garden and was taken up by the poet's dramatic imitators.
1947 Scrutiny XIV. 318 Anxious to fit the play [sc. Henry VIII] in as the final goal of the Shakespearian progress..he is driven to explain away the limp ‘Fletcherian’ verse.
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adj.1850